'''Rebecca West''', was the pen name of [[Cicely Fairfield]]. She was born in Kerry, [[Ireland]] in 1892 and educated in [[Scotland]], at George Watson's Ladies' College in [[Edinburgh]]. In 1910 she attended the Academy of Dramatic Art and worked briefly as an actress. She then turned to journalism and took the pen name Rebecca West after the heroine of a play by [[Henrik Ibsen]] called ''Rosmersholm''. | '''Rebecca West''', was the pen name of [[Cicely Fairfield]]. She was born in Kerry, [[Ireland]] in 1892 and educated in [[Scotland]], at George Watson's Ladies' College in [[Edinburgh]]. In 1910 she attended the Academy of Dramatic Art and worked briefly as an actress. She then turned to journalism and took the pen name Rebecca West after the heroine of a play by [[Henrik Ibsen]] called ''Rosmersholm''. |